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Creating Supportive Spaces for Women Entrepreneurs with Pinky Ghadiali

Matt chats with Pinky Ghadiali about why she started Netwomen.co, the purpose behind Netwomen.co, Pinky Ghadiali's story, and creating supportive spaces for women entrepreneurs.


Pinky Ghadiali's Story / The Purpose Behind Netwomen.co [0:20:00]
What Netwomen.co does [2:56:00]
Discussion about the experience [4:12:00]

Resources mentioned in this episode:


Netwomen
Netwomen Uncut Podcast

Episode transcript: Transcript of the episode’s audio.


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Episode Transcript:

starting out hey I'm here with Pinky Ghadiali and she is the creator of netwoman.co how are you doing today? I'm really good how about yourself I did very well really nice to be chatting with you thanks again for taking the time to chat with me can you tell us more about what net women is and why you got into that yeah, so thank you so much for asking me to come on here. I really appreciate it netwoman.co came about because I started my business as a life and business coach helping women who are struggling with perfection and with the fact that they are high achievers and very successful and struggling with imposter syndrome so that was my main reason for going to networking events at the time and when I used to go to networking events and that was five years ago here in Edinburgh I used to come across a sea of men in grey suits and that was very daunting and I felt quite intimidated by it all and i felt that I wasn't really in the room I didn't belong and I didn't feel like I was comfortable so there were many times where I'd turn up to these events and walk away so I decided to create my own and that started off as an in-person event in edinburgh and glasgow

And it was really fun we enjoyed the networking and lots of women were able to talk and come along and the whole point of starting that was because I'd started a business and i was working from home I was remote I felt alone I felt isolated and I felt stuck and I felt that there wasn't a supportive community that was out there for me so I started this and in the process i developed women in networking and then last year towards the end of last year.

I decided to globalize the business and really did not know you know no one knew that covered was going to happen didn't know that kobe was around the corner and it happened and actually covered made the world a smaller place in terms of people are now able to connect online people are more open to connect online and our community network.co has grown by 200 over the last five months and what we do is we help women who are struggling with the social isolation right now feeling alone and stuck and offer that supportive community for you where we offer networking events we offer coffee and chat we offer mastermind groups where you can come along and feel safe and talk about your challenges and it's about creating your killer mindset it's about the diversity and inclusion and belonging and also the fact that at this point in time I think there is a massive gap in the market when it comes to mental health support and supporting people through this really difficult time which has been quite challenging for many and we don't know what the figures are but I certainly know that there is a pandemic of mental health issues that has come out of covid and and so we're here to support you through that/

That's great so when you were originally building this did you meet a lot of other women who were kind of running to the same experience where they would go to these networking events and feel like okay i don't really fit in here or I'm not really comfortable speaking because i'm not taking maybe the way that you're being perceived by others or how has that been i certainly think that that is one of the factors that women struggle with sp